• ½ cup chicken, cut to small piece
• 4 cups chicken stock , click here for recipe
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• 2 spring onion, fine chopped along with the greens
• Juice of 1/2 lemon
• A handful of ginger, sliced into thin long strips
• A tiny bunch of lemongrass
• 5-6 springs of fresh corriander
• Salt & Pepper to dress

To the chicken pieces add salt and pepper and a drop of oil and set aside.

Put chicken stock in a pot over low flame, add the chopped spring onions, just smash the garlic clove with your palm and add to the broth along with the ginger strips.

Tie the lemongrass bunch with a clean cotton thread (makes it easy to discard later) and drop into the broth.

Now heat a non-stick pan and roast the chicken pieces for 5 minutes till golden on the outside. Then add these chicken pieces to the boiling chicken broth.

Now, using a mortar and pestle make a coarse paste of the coriander leaves and add it to the broth.

Carefully discard the garlic cloves and lemongrass. Also remove some of the ginger strips, approx half of them.

Once the broth had reduced to approx 2/3rd quantity then add salt to taste, the entire lemon juice and crack some pepper before removing from the heat.

Serve hot dressed with some fine cut strings of spring onion, ginger and a spring of coriander. Perhaps a dollop of butter if you like.

by Pak101.com (few years ago!) / 848 views